Public holiday Tuesday gives me the chance to sneak out for a hit in the comp at Pine Rivers. Tuesday is the vets comp day, but with it being a public holiday, the club has opened it up to any players. 7:30am shotgun start, single stableford competition. We drew a start from the par 3 14th hole.
Summary of the round:
Date played: 27th December
Score: 84 off the stick (my best ever score) which was 45 Stableford points
Highlight: A near chip in second shot from 40 metres out, which resulted in an easy putt for birdie on the 9th hole
Lowlight: A disastrous three putt 7 on the par 5 third hole after having a pretty easy par putt.
My putting score was 30 putts. Statistically an excellent result, but this was achieved with a chip in “no putt” par on the first and two lengthy single putts on holes 12 and 16. There was two shocking three putts on back to back holes (holes 3 and 4) and I slide a lot of putts past the hole or missed short putts I should have made. I felt this was the least satisfactory phase of my game yesterday.
Scoring wise, I managed a birdie (mentioned above as the highlight hole), six pars, seven bogeys and 4 doubles.
This was my lowest off the stick score. An 84, which could have been so much lower without a few dodgy putts. I dont know that I could have broke 80, but I would have gone close. The 45 stableford points was enough to register as second in the comp on the day.
My handicap dropped from 23.9 to 22.7. Means I am now playing off a 23 handicap. One more competition to play in 2011 and my handicap started the year at 28.1.
I recently wrote up a review of a round of golf I played on the Hamilton Island GOlf Club and posted it to tripadvisor and also iseekgolf. This is that review:
I played this course in August 2011. Surely it must be one of the world’s most spectacular golf courses. You access the course by a 10 minute ferry ride from Hamilton Island and the club house sits atop a hill which gives great views out over the Whitsunday Passage.
There are some tricky holes made even tougher by a stiff breeze which waits to push your ball off the fairway and into the coarse rough just off the fairway. I paid several penalties for lost balls, when tee shots hit the fairway and then rolled off the fairway into the rough.
The most memorable holes are definitely on the back nine. The par 3 14th, with fierce winds and a long carry over native bushland is as tricky an iron shot as you’ll find. The 15th is a great par four which runs downhill & into a stiff breeze, you’ll be best hitting something which keeps low here. Another distraction, when I played this hole, was the pod of humpback whales passing through the passage. The par 4 18th, hitting down the hill & with views forever is a great closing hole.
I thoroughly enjoyed the course, though it was one of the more challenging I have played.
One of the projects we’ve been working on lately at work is Roo Mail. The result is the video below, a tall tale about a North Queensland community which has trained Kangaroo’s to deliver their mail.
This round review is a couple of weeks late in being posted. This was a mixed round, with five pars and a birdie being the good side of the round, the dark side of the round being the four bogeys and the eight double (or worse) bogeys. That’s a 56% rating on bogey’s or lower.
The main culprit of the dark side of the round being the four – FOUR – penalties in the round. Three of the four fell on the one hole, with three out of bounders off the tee on the 11th.
I was pretty happy with how I hit the new driver, with a driving accuracy of 42.9% on the day. This result is by far my best result off the tee with the new club.
Highlight hole is pretty easy to see on the card. The first hole. I smashed the driver off the tee, nearly through the fairway, which left me with a reasonably short chip (around 60 or 70 metres) onto the green. The chip ended up around four metres to the right of the pin and the putt went into the back of the hole! That’s how you play the first at Pine Rivers.
Lowlight hole is also pretty easy to see on the card. I still feel sick thinking about the play off the tee…. Driver, right and out of bounds… Tee it back up again. Driver, right and out of bounds. Switch to the hybrid, but same result, right and out of bounds. U G L Y.
Forthy-three stableford points, with three washes. I ended up getting a mention in the run down. All in all though, the result could have been a lot better though.
This was round number one with the new Ping i15 Driver. I was not terribly accurate with it, hitting 3 of 10 fairways from the tee. However, it was a shot with this club that provided the highlight of the day.
Highlight of the day: A par 4 on the 13th hole. This hole regularly kicks my ass, I do not play it well. There’s a lengthy water carry and historically I play the hole by hitting hybrid, then a 9 iron on hopefully, but normally I miss the green and then have a chip on to a multi-tier green which is tricky to two putt. In other words, if I play it very well, I normally end up with a five, but chuck in a wayward chip / tee into the water and I reckon I would average around a 7 on the hole.
In this round though….. I hit driver from the tee to green side! This was a massive shot and one of the best I’ve ever played. The hole measures 308 metres, I’m not sure where the tee box was on the day, though I am sure it was forward. My shot ended up around 20 metres short of the green – hurray! After that tee shot, I was able to chip up nicely and just run the first putt past the right hand edge and sink the second putt for the par.
Low light of the round? Definitely the “Road Hole”, which is Pine Rivers fourth hole. I put my tee shot out of bounds and then ran my second tee shot into a difficult spot behind some trees, which I had to chip out of and from there it was an ugly road to an eight.
The round broke 100, with 99 shots. I had 3 penalties, had 32 putts (this is ok) & only had two pars…. hardly a great round.
Just wow! Through a contact on twitter, Mike Hauser (who works at Tourism Victoria): @doogsta I was put onto an application for the iPhone called Golfshot Golf GPS. I’ll write a separate little review on it, because it has quickly become one of my favorite thing about the iPhone.
Anyways…. In a nutshell, this application lets you track the scoring of your golf round and comes up with some handy stats and information at the end of the round too. I started using it for a round in January, but it wasn’t until the last couple of rounds I’ve come to understand how useful this app can be.
I’ve decided another of my regular posts here will be using the results of the Golfshot app for each round I play. I’ll mess around with the format a bit until I get it just like I want. I’ll post the first “Round Review” soon.
As an update on the new Ping i15 which I recently bought, I am loving it! My next “Highlight hole” post will feature the i15 & I’m getting warmed up to it now.
This is the first of my #project365 photos with me in it!
This photo was taken on the 11th of January, I have just been a little bust and pre-occupied over the past couple of days with the current flooding here in Brisbane, as well as Central Queensland and through Queensland’s Outback.
So, this photo is Jackson and I playing the wii. The game is Rugby League 3 and Jackson LOVES it… He’s getting better at the game too but he HATES being beaten… and i REFUSE to let the Raiders get beaten, so games where I’m the Raiders are very difficult balancing game between me not wanting the Raiders to lose and Jackson’s frustration.
The game was Jackson and Kylie’s present to me for Christmas… It’s a great Christmas presie!
I am shocking with change…. I hate carrying around any change in my pocket and that normally means I dump all the change, at the end of everyday on the counter in the kitchen. From there it gets transferred to the piggy bank and then from there to the secret hiding spot and never seen again. Poor plan huh!
Andrew Sinclair introduced me to this beautiful machine. It’s a coin counter! You take all your loose change in, tip it into a tray and the machine starts sorting the change and counts it for you. After counting the change, you’re issued with a receipt that you take to the teller. The teller then can deposit the funds into your NAB account, or, cash you out and provide you with the funds in notes
OK, that’s the cool part. The not-so-cool part is that if you are not an NAB customer, the service charge to use this service is 10% of the value of the transaction.
I’m not aware of it in any other banks, but would be great to know if they’re out there.
Well, hang on a second there. If you look closely enough you’ll notice that the hose hangs kinda wierd and there’s a couple of VERY minor scratches on the connection between the hose and wall mounting. Why?
Because I did this myself!
One of the several inside chores I did today was to put this up in Jackson’s bathroom.
It didn’t take as long as I thought it would and I didn’t completely stuff up any part of the installation.
I’m not a big fan of the actual set as the hose keeps turning the wrong way and the shower head doesn’t sit in its cradle properly. Poor design (not poorly installed)…
This photo is taken looking towards the green on 13th hole. This hole is not kind to me… It’s a 308 metre par 4, with a water carry, the hole is indexed as the 4th hardest hole on the course. I average a 6.4 on this hole…. I normally put my tee shot over on the right hand side of the fairway and trees stop me from having a reasonable approach shot.
Today though, I managed a 5, which included a stinky 3 putt! boo! My birdie putt was hit way too soft and the second putt was pushed to the right… blah!
Today’s round was pretty good. I hit a 90 off the stick, which is my second best score on the course, behind an 89 I hit in April 2009…
Going to have to check the Sunday Mail tomorrow morning to see if I manage to get on the podium.
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